To The Blackwater River

From the bogs of Ballydesmond down the fields of Knocknagree Flow on wandering Blackwater flow on blissfully and free Down by Cork and Kerry border through the Meadows of Rathmore At the starting of your journey for the wild Atlantic shore. Near the Shamrock bridge in Cullen you are joined by Araglen In the heartland of Duhallow and you journey southward then And by railway line at Drishane the Finnow waters you greet In lush and fertile meadows in the Parish of Millstreet. On through Banteer and through Mallow and the flatlands of Fermoy And your destiny the ocean with each passing mile draw nigh And rills and streams and little rivers join you on your sea going way As through meadows of north east Cork like a wanderer you stray. Through the finest lands in Ireland you are privileged to flow Leafy groves and grassy meadows and through fields where corn grow And near journey end at Youghal you flow like an Inland sea You who started as a streamlet towards the west of Knocknagree.